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| 3 | Members: Dylan Turner, Prachi Patel |
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| 5 | Faculty advisors: |
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| 7 | == PROJECT OVERVIEW |
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| 13 | == PROGRESS LOG |
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| 15 | Week 1 (5/28 - 5/30) |
| 16 | - Began reading the research paper our project is based on, which details the fundamental aspects of our topic. |
| 17 | - We met with our mentor and began discussing topics in depth in regards to metamaterial antennas. |
| 18 | - We learned how to use Orbit and the command line arguments in order to connect the node along with turning it on and off. |
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| 20 | Week 2 (6/3 - 6/6) |
| 21 | - We learned the fundamentals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). |
| 22 | - We watched an Introduction to Linux presentation. |
| 23 | - We downloaded GNU Radio on our local devices. |
| 24 | - We experimented with creating basic flowgraphs. |
| 25 | - We completed a tutorial with our mentor involving Sandbox 2, transmitting and receiving OFDM signals from two Software Defined Radios. |
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| 27 | Week 3 (6/10 - 6/13) |
| 28 | - We began looking into source code for the OFDM transmitter block that required modification. |
| 29 | - We learned how to output to file sink using GNURadio. |
| 30 | - We researched related topics as we came across them in the flowgraph, such as Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) which is essentially an |
| 31 | error correction tool. |
| 32 | - We viewed outputs for each individual block as Hex or Binary data. |
| 33 | - Wrote a script to convert the complex number in Single precision IEEE 752 format to decimal using python. |
| 34 | - We tried to visualize the output of the OFDM Carrier allocator, but ran into issues because we cannot use custom python blocks on mac |
| 35 | due to a bug. |
| 36 | - Modified the saving script to accept a second set of vectors as input which will multiply the OFDM carrier allocation output. |
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